Olostep vs. Exa
Olostep extracts and structures data from specific websites at scale. Exa is a neural search engine that finds semantically relevant pages across the web — it discovers URLs, it does not scrape them.
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Which one is right for you?
Choose Olostep
Choose Olostep to scrape specific URLs, extract structured data with custom JSON schemas, handle anti-bot protections, or run batch jobs on known page lists. Olostep returns the full underlying data — raw HTML, markdown, or exact fields — not a search index snippet.
Choose Exa
Choose Exa when your AI agent needs to discover semantically relevant pages across the web using a neural search index built from scratch with custom transformer architecture. Exa's /find_similar endpoint and Websets product for entity discovery (1B+ people profiles) have no equivalent in Olostep.
Why Olostep
Clean web data,
at any scale.
Targeted URL Extraction
Give Olostep a URL and get back the complete page — raw HTML, clean markdown, or a strict JSON schema. Exa returns search results and snippets from its index.
Learn moreAnti-Bot Bypass
Olostep uses residential proxies and browser fingerprinting to access pages behind Cloudflare and Datadome. Exa has no proxy infrastructure or CAPTCHA solving.
Learn moreDeep Domain Crawling
Recursively crawl entire websites and extract exhaustive datasets from every page. Exa's index covers the web broadly but cannot exhaust a specific target domain.
Learn moreKey differences
Olostep vs. Exa
| Feature | Olostep | Exa |
|---|---|---|
| Core Function | Scraping and structured extraction from specific URLs | Neural semantic search — find relevant pages across the web |
| Data Output | Full page content: raw HTML, markdown, custom JSON schemas | URLs, text summaries, highlights, relevance scores |
| Anti-Bot Handling | Residential proxies, fingerprinting, CAPTCHA bypass | None — depends entirely on what its web index has crawled |
| Structured Extraction | Custom JSON schema on any URL | Not available — pre-defined text and highlight formats only |
Use cases & benchmarks
Crawl thousands of specific pages and extract structured fields to build proprietary training datasets. Exa cannot crawl specific domains on demand.
Extract exact pricing, inventory, and reviews from product pages using custom JSON schemas. Exa returns snippets, not structured product fields.
Scrape specific company domains to extract contacts, team pages, and company data in structured JSON.
Pull full article bodies and post content from known source domains for syndication, fine-tuning, or analysis.
Full comparison
Every feature, side by side.
A complete overview of Olostep vs. Exa.
| Feature | Olostep | Exa | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Function | Extract data *from* known websites | Discover *which* websites contain relevant data | Exa answers 'find me pages about X.' Olostep answers 'give me the data from this URL.' They are complementary tools — teams often use Exa to find URLs, then Olostep to scrape them. |
| Data Output | Raw HTML, full markdown, strict JSON schemas | URLs, AI-selected highlights, and text summaries from its index | Olostep gives you the complete underlying page for downstream processing. Exa gives you a curated view of what it found across the web. |
| Domain Coverage | Exhaustively crawl any specific domain on demand | Broad web index — cannot guarantee coverage of a specific target domain | If you need every page from a target website, Olostep is the right tool. Exa's neural index may not have indexed the domain you care about. |
| Anti-Bot Handling | Residential proxies, fingerprinting, CAPTCHA solving — included | No anti-bot infrastructure — cannot access Cloudflare-protected pages | Olostep can retrieve data from sites with advanced bot protection. Exa's index is limited to what standard web crawlers can access. |
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Co-founder & CEO, Aurium
Olostep is the best!!! We automated entire data pipelines with just a prompt.
Co-founder & CEO, Openmart
Olostep has become the default Web Layer infrastructure for our company.
Co-founder & CEO, Gumloop
Olostep works like a charm! And your customer service is exceptional.
Co-founder, Merchkit
Olostep lets us turn any website into an API. Great product, great people.
Co-founder & CTO, CivilGrid
I highly recommend Olostep, great product!
Co-founder & CEO, Aurium
Olostep is the best!!! We automated entire data pipelines with just a prompt.
Co-founder & CEO, Openmart
Olostep has become the default Web Layer infrastructure for our company.
Co-founder & CEO, Gumloop
Olostep works like a charm! And your customer service is exceptional.
Co-founder, Merchkit
Olostep lets us turn any website into an API. Great product, great people.
Co-founder & CTO, CivilGrid
I highly recommend Olostep, great product!
Co-founder & CEO, Aurium
Olostep is the best!!! We automated entire data pipelines with just a prompt.
Co-founder & CEO, Openmart
Olostep has become the default Web Layer infrastructure for our company.
Co-founder & CEO, Gumloop
Olostep works like a charm! And your customer service is exceptional.
Co-founder, Merchkit
Olostep lets us turn any website into an API. Great product, great people.
Co-founder & CTO, CivilGrid
I highly recommend Olostep, great product!
Co-founder & CEO, Aurium
Olostep is the best!!! We automated entire data pipelines with just a prompt.
Co-founder & CEO, Openmart
Olostep has become the default Web Layer infrastructure for our company.
Co-founder & CEO, Gumloop
Olostep works like a charm! And your customer service is exceptional.
Co-founder, Merchkit
Olostep lets us turn any website into an API. Great product, great people.
Co-founder & CTO, CivilGrid
I highly recommend Olostep, great product!
Co-founder & CEO, Gedd.it
We verify coupon codes at scale. Love Olostep. It works on any e-commerce.
Co-founder & CEO, Podqi
Olostep is the best API to search, extract, and structure data from the Web. Happy to be customers.
Co-founder, Zecento
We use /batches combined with parsers and it's magical how we can get structured data deterministically at large scale.
Growth, PlotsEvents
Olostep allowed us to search and structure events data across the Web.
Founder, Foundbase
Reliable and cost-effective API for working with data. Congrats on the cool product.
Co-founder & CEO, Gedd.it
We verify coupon codes at scale. Love Olostep. It works on any e-commerce.
Co-founder & CEO, Podqi
Olostep is the best API to search, extract, and structure data from the Web. Happy to be customers.
Co-founder, Zecento
We use /batches combined with parsers and it's magical how we can get structured data deterministically at large scale.
Growth, PlotsEvents
Olostep allowed us to search and structure events data across the Web.
Founder, Foundbase
Reliable and cost-effective API for working with data. Congrats on the cool product.
Co-founder & CEO, Gedd.it
We verify coupon codes at scale. Love Olostep. It works on any e-commerce.
Co-founder & CEO, Podqi
Olostep is the best API to search, extract, and structure data from the Web. Happy to be customers.
Co-founder, Zecento
We use /batches combined with parsers and it's magical how we can get structured data deterministically at large scale.
Growth, PlotsEvents
Olostep allowed us to search and structure events data across the Web.
Founder, Foundbase
Reliable and cost-effective API for working with data. Congrats on the cool product.
Co-founder & CEO, Gedd.it
We verify coupon codes at scale. Love Olostep. It works on any e-commerce.
Co-founder & CEO, Podqi
Olostep is the best API to search, extract, and structure data from the Web. Happy to be customers.
Co-founder, Zecento
We use /batches combined with parsers and it's magical how we can get structured data deterministically at large scale.
Growth, PlotsEvents
Olostep allowed us to search and structure events data across the Web.
Founder, Foundbase
Reliable and cost-effective API for working with data. Congrats on the cool product.
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